[Artificial therapeutic feeding in esophageal surgery].

Manifestations of the protein-energy deficiency were studied in 150 patients with burn strictures of the esophagus, and the ways of their correction by means of artificial therapeutic feeding were analysed. It was shown, that inclusion of an adequate artificial nutrition diet into the preoperative medication allows for preoperative normalization of the patient's nutritional status and thus for a significant improvement of postoperative results.

Hyperbaric oxygenation in treatment of peripheral vascular disorders.

The authors discuss the reaction of central and peripheral hemodynamics to HBO and therapeutic effect of superoxygenation on ischemic tissues. HBO not only improves the metabolism in the ischemic areas but also activates microcirculation in such areas with a reduced blood flow. The experience of the largest Soviet HBO center covers more than 3,000 cases of peripheral vascular disorders.